Hillsboro recorder., 1887-11-24
SOUTHERN BRIEFS.
READABLE ITEMS Carefully
GATHERED HITLER AND YON.
Social, Temperance nnd Religious Move.
ments-Fires, Deaths aud Suicides-Itaii-
rond Operations and improvements.

There Is much excitement at Salt |
Springs, Ga, from the appearance OF |
mad dogs Three have been killed in |
two Gays, aud many are expected to
have hydrophobia. @ p Sta
William Hayward Atkinson, who at
one time during the late War was the
private secretary Of Gen. r. e. Lee, died
at Beech Island, in Aiken county, ). q.
Mr.. Atkinson was seventy years Of age.
The registration of Atlanta, Ca, was
completed, and it was the biggest ever
shown in that city. In 1885 there were
registered s,966 votes for the prohibit
tion election. This year the grand total
reaches IL, ,140. u%
The Elyton Land Company of Alabama
recently declared scrip dividend OF 81
200 per share-cqual to twelve hundred
per cent. The stockholders are to issue
bonds at six per cent for $2,5O0,OO to
pay off this dividend.
George N. Pullman, of palace car
fame, is in Birmingham, Ala, looking
for branch of his Pullman car works.
The Elyton Land company has bought
machinery for car works, which will have
o capacity Of ten freight cars per day.
A syndicate OF Northern and English
capitalists has bought the entire inter-
est of d. A. Appleton in the city Of Port
Royal, s. c., and vicinity, and will at
once build half mile docks and open di-
rect railroad communication with Bir-
mingham, Ala.
The annual report of the railroad COM
mission of Alabama shows that in that
state for the year ending June 30, 1887,
there was an increase Of 1901 miles OF
railroad. 251. 20 miles OF steel rails, OF ST.
347, 523,7s of gross receipts, of S5l u
102. so of gross expenditures and OF $780,
0sS Of net receipts.
The registration for the municipal
election closed at Charleston, S. G., with
a rather startling result, the total vote
being 10, 7s5, against 1917 in 1888. The
increase Is largely in the negro vote. The
white vote is 4, ore, against 4, 517 in 1883.
The total white majority is only %,
against 2,0Oj in 1883.
About thirty anarchists held q meet
ing in the room Of German barkeeper,
and organized ledge at Birmingham,
Ala. The execution Of their brothers at
Chicago was discussed, aud red hot
speeches we're made. The sentiment Of
the meeting was that the Judicial muir
der" must be avenged. IS
A magnificent private car for Gen. L.
p. Alexander, president of the Georgia
Central railway, is now building in the
company's shops in Macon, Ga. When
finished il wi / be one Of the finest cars
in the United States. It is "a feet long.
It's cost will be nearly $4,000. 1t will
be completed in ten days from now.
The bronze statue of the late Chief
Justice Taney by Rhinehart, presented
to Baltimore, Nd, Vim. t. Walters,
was unveiled in Mount Vernon place in
the presence Of large number Of promi-
nent citizens. There were no ceremo-
nies attending the event. The statue
was quietly unveiled by Master Roger
Brook fancy Anderson, great grand
son Of the eminent jurist.
Senator Vance, while riding in 4 road
wagon. on a narrow road leading TO his
residence, near Black Mountain, n. G.,
was thrown out, and, falling on his head,
received q cut about three inches
long reaching TO the bone. DIR. John A.
Watson, Of Asheville. was summoned BY
telegraph and reached the senator early
the nett morning. lie dressed the wound
and left him in a satisfactory condition.
The injury, though severe, Is not dan
gerous.
walhalla, s. c., was thrown into q
state If excitement by the acts Of a
drunken riotous mob. Going around
to the middle Of Main street, they spent
their fury destroying the town lamps,
tearing down bridges, cutting aud de-
stroyilig we'll rores and buckets and lev
cling fences. Their depredatiOns were
stayed by the timely discovery Of the
town authorities, who at once arrested
the principal rioters, viz: Columbus
Seeba, .Iunfus Hooper and G. q. Head,
whom the police placed behind the bars.
The mayor Of Anderson, 5. c., Is max
ing Il exceedingly hot for yiolators Of
the prohibition law in that city. Within
the last two weeks, John O'D0nncll, an
cx.bafkeeper, has been convicted five
times of selling whiskey. aud 10 each
casc sentenced 10 pay fine Of 500 or
work thirty days on the streets. About
dozen more cases against O'Donncll
viii he tiicd. Thirteen other pCIsOns
have been convicted on the same charge
during the past two weeks, their fines
aggregaiing thirteen hundred dollars.
Five cnlorcd laborrrs on the extension
Of the Nashville, Florence & Sheffield
Railroad we're killed by l,cing buried in
/ mass Of rocks and earth, Iooscned by
an explosion Of charges Of dynamite In a
side cut on q road bed. The fatality oc-
CURED near wayland springs, aud " $
the result Of a misunderstanding. The
foreman had sent his hands away to a
4 place Of safety, with orders not 20 return
until he sent for them. lie, with one oI
two other hands, remained TO charge the
holes In the rocks and iirc the fuses. By
some misunderstanding five Of his hands
came back In the cut just below the facing
where the blasting was 10 be, md in
siantiy tons nl bUulders and cath were
buried in on them, barying them so that
they were not gotten out for fOrty-eight
hours.
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